Many
people today believe that the family is no longer important. Some
schools in the United States of America, serve three meals a day.
This destroys the family by lessening the time that children can
spend with their parents. Yet so many things point to families. Let's
look at the cat for one. The cat will defend her young with her life,
she works night and day for weeks teaching her young what is safe to
eat and what is not. Recently, I had a mother cat living under my old
chicken coop. I was giving her plenty of food, but then something
happened and one of her kits got hurt, so even thou she had plenty of
food she moved all of her kittens to a safer location even thou it
would be harder for her. Yet now so many mothers would rather turn
the teaching of their children over to the government. Even though
the government tens to wont what is best for itself rather than what
is best for the governed. Like after the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, when Stalin came to power, the schools told the children
that god did not exist, because if the children did not believe that
god exists then they will be more likely to believe exactly what the
government told them, and the Russian government also tried to close
down the practice of all religions.
How
can the human race hope to survive when we can not or will not grasp
the thing that so many of the tiniest creatures have mastered?
God
created man and woman to work together and have a family. But now
people are encouraging us to forget that marriage is between a man
and a woman and that families are important.
Instead
they are encouraging same-sex marriage and that woman should not have
babies. In fact a article in The Daily Herald said that the American
birth rate is at its lowest for the fourth year in a row. It's now
the lowest it's been in 14 years. Also there have been well over 1
billion abortions, world wide, since 1980.
Now
the common feeling is that if you are at all unhappy in marriage, you
should just give up and find a new partner. In 2009 the U.S. Census
Bureau did an American Community Survey and found that the marriage
breakups for first marriage is about 50%; the brake up rate after
second marriage is 67% and the brake up rate for third marriage is
74%.
Does
no one even considers the impact that this will have on the children
who are missing a parent? Just a little side note on that, if a
child's parents divorce that child is 4 times more likely to get a
divorce than a child who's parents stayed together. That is if the
parent, had any children. Children today more than ever need their
mother ans father. Here are some statistics on how important it is
for children to have a father.
Young
men who grow up in fatherless homes are twice as likely to end up in
jail as those who come from a traditional two parent home. (journal
of research on adolescence September 14-2004)
63%
of youth suicides come from fatherless homes.
85%
of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from
fatherless homes.
71%
of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes.
70%
of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless
homes. (National Institution of Justice 1998)
Kids
that live in single or step-families report lower education
expectation. (American Sociological Review 1991)
In
a longitudinal study of 1,197 fourth-grade students researchers
observed “greater levels of aggression in boys from mother-only
households than from boys in mother-father households. (Journal of
Abnormal Child Psychology 1995)
Almost
twice as many high achievers come from two parent homes as come from
one parent homes. (Charles F. Kettering Foundation 1990)
Only
13% of juvenile delinquents come from families in which the
biological mother and father are marred to each other. By contrast,
33% have parents who are either divorced or separated and 44% have
parents who were never marred. (Wisconsin Department of Health and
Social Services April 1994)
The likelihood that a young male
will engage in criminal activity doubles if he is raised without a
father and triples if he lives in a neighborhood with a high
concentration of single-parent families. (Underclass Behaviors in
the United States,CUNY, Baruch College 1993)
In closing I would like to quote a poem entitled:
I AM THE CAT. By: Leila Usher
In
Egypt they worshiped me
I
am the cat.
Because
I bend not to the will of man
They call me a mystery.
When
I catch and play with a mouse,
They call me cruel.
Yet
they take animals to keep
In parks and zoos that they may gape at
them.
Nay, more, they persecute their own human creatures;
They
shoot, they hang, they torture them,
Yet
dare to call me cruel.
Could but see themselves
As I the Cat see them,
These human creatures, bereft of all freedom
Who
fallow in the ruts others made
Long ages ago!
Who
have rings in their noses
Yet
know it not.
They
hate me, the Cat,
Because, forsooth I don't love them.
Do
they love me?
They
think all animals were made for their pleasure,
To
be their slaves.
And
wile I kill only for my needs,
they
kill for pleasure, power, and gold.
And
then pretend to a superiority!
Why
should I love them?
I,
the Cat whose ancestors
Proudly trod the jungle,
Not one ever tamed by man.
Ah,
do they know
That the same immortal hand
that
gave them live, gave life to me?
But
I alone am free--
I
Am The Cat.
This
poem talks about how the human race takes things for granted.
It
seems to me that if we do not chance our ways soon we will kill
ourselves off.
